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Google Places Is Dropping Reviews

Nov 8th 2010 at 5:51 PM

I'm not sure what changes are happening behind the scenes at Google, but I received two frantic emails today from clients that saw their review counts practically disappear. Honda Cars of Bellevue had a total of 42 reviews showing on Google Places last week, and this is how things look today:

Acton Toyota last week had over 1,000 reviews last week and this is what their Google Places listing looks like today, November 8, 2010:

Is anyone else seeing their Google Places review counts dropping? It looks like there is a bug in their system that is going to be hurting many businesses.